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Shlok Vaidya<\/a><\/strong> is a longtime friend of zenpundit.com<\/strong> and is a consultant on technology and security issues, including terrorism and the Naxalite<\/strong> insurgency<\/a>. When I heard that Shlok had received a coveted advance copy of the latest novel by Daniel Suarez<\/strong>,<\/a> I cordially invited him to cross-post his review here. Vaidya blogs on books, technology, warfare and resilient communities at Shloky.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n REVIEW: KILL DECISION BY DANIEL SUAREZ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n by Shlok Vaidya<\/strong><\/p>\n Kill Decision\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>is startlingly real. And equally plausible.<\/p>\n Suited masters of perception playing games with reality while skipping scotch in Crystal City. D.C.\u2019s incestuous relationship between big defense business and\u2026 everyone else. Nameless, compartmentalized operators fighting through the night in cesspools loosely labeled as countries. Drones raining from the skies.<\/p>\n For those familiar with the constellation of clandestine units, private military contractors, and information warriors that comprise much of America\u2019s counter-terrorism capacity, this book will feel very,\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0real.<\/p>\n (If you\u2019re not up to speed, I heartily recommend Marc Ambinder\u2019s\u00a0The Command<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0as a quick\/cheap\/quality introduction to that world.)<\/p>\n But Kill Decision takes that reality a step forward. In a way that perhaps cements Suarez\u2019s position as the best near-future fiction author of the post-9\/11 era. He folds in equal parts science, warfare, and informed futurism to take today\u2019s sleek drones to their logical conclusion. The results will gnaw on your brain like a swarm of gnats, for weeks after you read the book.<\/p>\n This is possible, of course, due in large part to his foundation in John Robb\u2019s work (something Suarez graciously mentions in his acknowledgements). Readers of\u00a0Brave New War<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Global Guerrillas<\/a>\u00a0will find themselves nodding along.<\/p>\n Kill Decision is that real, yet, like Suarez\u2019s\u00a0Freedom<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Daemon<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, it\u2019s also a lot of fun. Great action sequences that just scream MAKE A MOVIE. Compelling characters. Quality narrative. It\u2019s all in here.<\/p>\n Grab it today if you want to see tomorrow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shlok Vaidya is a longtime friend of zenpundit.com and is a consultant on technology and security issues, including terrorism and the Naxalite insurgency. When I heard that Shlok had received a coveted advance copy of the latest novel by Daniel Suarez, I cordially invited him to cross-post his review here. Vaidya blogs on books, technology, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,133,343,445,599,514,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book","category-readers","category-reading","category-science-fiction","category-shlok","category-shloky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11487,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}